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The 13th Dalai Lama was born in the village of Thakpo Langdun, one day by car, south-east from Lhasa, and near Sam-ye Monastery, Tak-po province, in June 1876 to parents Kunga Rinchen and Lobsang Dolma, a peasant couple. Laird gives his birthdate as 27 May 1876, and Mullin gives it as dawn on the 5th month of the Fire Mouse Year (1876).
The Thirteenth Dalai Lama, Tubten Gyatso, lived through a turbulent time in Tibetan and world history. Forced into exile first by a British invasion and then by a Chinese invasion, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama learned about modern technology and different forms of government. Following the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, he declared independence for Tibet. His reforms and religious eclecticism put him in conflict with many conservative members of the Geluk clergy, who resisted his efforts to ...
2 days ago · The 14th Dalai Lama, Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho (Tenzin Gyatso), was born Lhamo Thondup (also spelled Dhondup) in 1935 in what is currently Tsinghai province, China, of Tibetan parentage. He was recognized as the incarnation of the 13th Dalai Lama in 1937, enthroned in 1940, and vested with full powers as head of state in 1950.
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Jun 25, 2019 · The 13th Dalai Lama and the Chinese-Tibetan Conflict. Early Life to the Defeat of Chinese Occupation Forces in 1912. It is widely believed in the West that, until the 1950s, the Dalai Lamas were all-powerful, autocratic rulers of Tibet. In fact, after the "Great Fifth" (Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso, 1617-1682), the succeeding Dalai Lamas barely ruled ...
Tenzin Gyatso. Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso Jigdral Chokley Namgyal, abbreviated to Thubten Gyatso [1] ( Tibetan: ཐུབ་བསྟན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ , Wylie: Thub Bstan Rgya Mtsho; 12 February 1876 – 17 December 1933) was the 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, [2] enthroned during a turbulent era and the collapse of the Qing Empire.
The 13th Dalai Lama assumed ruling power from the monasteries, which previously had great influence on the Regent, in 1895. Due to his two periods of exile in 1904–1909 to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910–1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.
Learn about the life and achievements of the 13th Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobsang Thupten Gyatso, who ruled Tibet from 1876 to 1933. Find out how he fled from the Chinese invasion, visited India and China, and faced the challenges of modernization and reform.
